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Tom (DreamlandModels) and I had a similar problem. Tom has a lot of "city" stuff and the cars look great in those situations. But whole city scenes are kind of heavy on resources when you want a 5-minute render time and you have to crank out 10 promo images. And - they do get a bit busy and distract you from the car.

So we came up with the "Car Patio". And - we started selling the Car Patio yesterday.

Combined with my free environment sphere, it makes for very fast and attractive car renders. Just interesting enough to put them in context, but not so interesting that the context is distracting.

 

Mr. B -

I come with great humbleness, O Supreme and Inestimable One, to ask thee a question - 5 minute renders? How is this possible, Your Shaderness? The best I seem able to come up with and still have somewhat meaningful results with a puddle material for the patio is 14 minutes at 1000x625 resolution, using the Envsphere with an 8k x 4k jpeg cheat for IBL (overcast, produced in Photoshop with light blue-gray fading into dark blue-gray gradient). SSS is off, displacement maps is off, RayTrace is 3, IC is 0*, IDLQ is 16, shading is 1.00, post filter is 1, GC enabled (and set to 1.0 in the shaders). And yes, I leave smoothing on. I am on a 6-year-old first-gen MacPro with two dual-core CPUs, or four cores for 4 threads. No other lights but IBL.

The reason I ask, Your Most Illustriousness, is because the 1000x625 render you did had me looking to see if you described it as a Luxrender or a 3dsMax render - I cannot believe you rendered that in Poser! That was - beautiful! Reflections in reflections? Four vehicles with glossy reflections? Puddles? 5-minute renders?? Oh my! I hope you weren't kidding. (And why the h#@! doesn't Poser have a render timer yet - that is my pet peeve!)

I model in modo and I think if that is what Poser can do now with a Reyes engine, I may move some models over and try them (retro '50s cafe table with chairs, buildings, swimming pools, etc., high poly)... if I can get the 5-minute renders. Unless, of course, you have a 16-core machine, in which case this would all be moot for me.

Would you be willing to share your render settings and the lighting you used, O Great and Infinite Numberness? If I can move my models into Poser for rendering (although modo is super fast), rather than trying one more time to move Poser models to modo (always a disaster for me, materials lost, etc. etc.), I will build a human model in modo and call him Mr. Reyes ;-)

I have PP2012 SR2.1, and units are in inches.

P.S. - I love that car patio! I think I'll do something similar for the top of my buildings, only square. I also love that car, whoever modeled that baby is very very good. Can't wait till I can afford it!

*I have read the thread on IC, and it must be the reverse on a Mac, because 0 is fast and 99 or 100 is i-n-f-i-n-i-t-e-l-y SLOW! Unless SM fixed this behavior because you once remarked that it didn't operate as one expected (don't quote me on that quote). Of course, that may have been an old thread. Like this one... which may go unread!

Regards,

Rube